Sooner or later

•The good news: with the modern means of today, sometimes it can be cured.
•“Cyano-” doesn’t always kill you!
•Cyanoacrylate primers, a way to better bonds?

•Insider's content 2002-2006
•Are nonmetal reinforcements acceptable?

•Progress made in 30 years
•A disdained, tormented duckling has grown to be a swan.

•Orthodontists are luckier than ocularists...
•Mending acrylic attachments

•Against all warnings, paste dual composites could and should be stored in close contact!
•Dentistry's composites should outspace those from industry

•Today, titanium brackets lack appeal due to their appearance and poor bond strength. New technology may change that
•Acrylics-solvent: a promising interaction

•Resin-based composites. Today and Tomorrow
•Orthodontic recycling: is it risky?

•Are the costly and complex testing machines irreplaceable?
•A simple bond strength testing device and... the Trommsdorff Effect

•Happy Birthday, Claude!
•To have great composites, we’ll have to look ...down

•A wish list for orthodontic materials, 2005

•If you want to speak at the EOS, pay 40 Euros/minute…extra!

•What is hidden behind your bracket’s mesh ? II.

•Polymers in Orthodontics: a Present Danger?

•What is hidden behind your bracket’s mesh?

•Pain-free Magneto-Orthodontics, a Deception?
•Water descaling, a proof for the over-hydrated Ca++ hypotheses?

•Can a simple evaluation of elastomeric ligatures be meaningful?

•In search of better bond.
•Do adhesives & sealants really seal the brackets' pad? II.surface tension.

•"The Orthodontic Materials Insider" is now fifteen years... young!
•Do adhesives and sealants really seal the bracket's pad?

•Recycling... without electropolishing.
•Polishing without metal loss: centrifugal tumbling.

•Invisalign Revisited.
•Are the Do-it-yourself Tests Questionable or Undesirable?

•Plastic, Polymers, Resins: A necessary evil.
•A do-it-yourself detection of leaching polymers.

•Our recently earned CE Mark.
•Bracket's shape influences friction.
•Reader's appreciations of Ortho-Cycle's newsletters.

•Ortho- Cycle’s Silver Anniversary!
•A new and simple way to evaluate slot size.
•Articles written in Ortho-Cycle's newsletters.

•Weighing… friction (Use of a deadened coil spring scale to measure bracket friction).

•The ARI concept can help to save you money! (ARI can be used to evaluate the bonding strength of direct bonding brackets)

•Medice, cura te ipsum (Devices suppressing appetite or limiting the ingestion of food: a review).
•An ISO simplified corrosion test detects leached nickel.

•It’s just up to you to fight nickel allergies…( A do- it- yourself test allowing to detect heavy metals leaching appliances).
•Do you really know the resins you use? Bis GMA. Part II (Analysis of the “no mix” vs. two- parts resin mix).

•The Congress laughs, sings and dances…( An analysis of the impact of the Invisalign system).
•Current prescriptions (Centrals to IInd bicuspids) (Torques and angulations for forty two prescriptions).

•We got an ISO 9002 certification; you may have to get it too…
•Do you really know the resins you use? Bis GMA (Cytotoxicity, mutagenicity, carcinogicity, estrogenicity, hydrophilicity).

•Single use, useless appliances (Defects commonly encountered in direct bonding brackets).
•Doc, I’m allergic to metals! (A new, do- it- yourself test for leached metals).

•The wear and corrosion resistance of metal deposits (Comparison between gold and Ti, Zr nitride- coated brackets).

•Orthodontic recycling enters the new millennium (An overview on recycling in medicine and orthodontics).

•Orthodontic biomaterials in China.
•An insidious syndrome may threaten your practice: “Patentite” (Patents orthodontics, materials and procedures).

•Metallography and You. II. Surface analysis (Surface defects, consequences, testing).

•Metallography and You. I. “Dissection”. (Factors influencing bracket behavior vs. microstructure).

•Measure up to “Smart materials”! (Discussion of the martensitic transformations occurring in steels, NiTi, ceramics and plastics).

•What NBC- TV knew and didn’t tell you (A list of the deceptions, half- truths, omissions, biases and innuendos contained in NBC’s broadcast on bracket recycling of March 9, 1998).
•Are reconditioned attachments worse than the new ones? (A forensic analysis of both kinds showing that the differences intra reconditioned and new brackets is lesser than the one between that inter the new brackets of the same type).
•The first antimicrobial resin is on the market (Immunization of acrylic resins as recommended by OrthoCycle six years before).

•Reader’s comments at the “Insider’s tenth anniversary”.

•Thinking of a Website? (Indications related to its designing and use).
•Composite attachments in orthodontics.

•Ceramic brackets: properties never studied before I. Impact resistance through optical lenses standards.
•II. Bracket slot friction through Atomic Force Microscopy.

•NiTi alloys: two metals in one.

•A New Year’s gift to the profession? (Comments on NBC- TV’s invited visit to Ortho- Cycle’s premises).
•How do reconditioned brackets compare to new ones?
•Self- engaging brackets: passive vs. active.

•Ortho- Cycle’s “Ortho-Recycling” (Twenty years since its humble beginnings) (Overview on its scientific accomplishments).

•Materials orthodontists use: elastomers.
•Cytotoxicity of polyurethane elastomers.

•Milling, casting, or injection molding? (Discussion of the bracket manufacturing methods).
•Diamond and fluorine- based coatings lower friction.

•Trends: good bye Ni, welcome Co, Mn.
•Traditional Chinese medicine and the edgewise technique (Presentation of a study performed at Moscow’s Dentistry Institute).

•A do- it- yourself friction testing (Description of a new and simple system using the principle of the deadened coil spring balance).
•Titanium, a metal with future in orthodontics.

•Ionites, complexes, chelates (Their relationship with modern adhesives).

•The edgewise bracket versus friction (Discussion of various brackets in respect to the sliding mechanism)
•The Herbst appliance.

•Why have information on orthodontic materials? -Breakthroughs are already here, or expected soon… (Advances in other fields which may have an impact on orthodontic biomaterials).

•Preadjusted appliances: One shoe fits all? II (Prescription comparison).
•Microhardness, a tool to evaluate brackets.

•Attachment surface treatments (Electropolishing, etching, gold plating, silanation).
•One- piece brackets are here to stay! II. (Sporadic or accidental faults, systematic faults, slot analysis).

•Bracket recycling: case closed? (The confrontation between bracket manufacturers and recyclers).
•One- piece brackets are here to stay! I. Manufacture, advantages, disadvantages.

•Pioneers and movers in orthodontic materials (Eulogy of Thomas D. Creekmore).
•Could the gap be ever bridged? (An interview with Dr. Hans P. Bimler on removable and fixed orthodontic appliances).
•Ignored milestones in orthodontics (Means to apply force: screws and nuts vs. springs).

•Reconditioned brackets offer less friction (Wear lends their slot smoother).
•Magnets and orthodontics.

•Evolution of several orthodontic biomaterials (Script of C. G. Matasa’s conference at the 66th European Scientific Reunion of the French Society of Dentofacial Orthopedics).

•Preadjusted appliances: One shoe fits all? (Questioning the “universality” of the prescriptions).
•The “Poor man’s tensile strength tester” (Use of the P. N. Gardner’s Elcometer to determine bracket bond strength).

•Pioneers and movers in orthodontic materials (Eulogy of Dr. Brainerd F. Swain).
•Microbes feed on your stainless steel attachments.
•Not everything that glitters is good gold (Problems encountered in bracket gold plating).

•Your bonds may decay, without your knowledge (Discussion of the adhesive’s microbial attack).

•A tribute to the “Earth Summit” at Rio de Janeiro (How can some still argue against recycling?.
•Facts about bracket corrosion. II. Prevention.

•Facts about bracket corrosion. I. Phenomena and consequences.
•Aren’t you fed up with molar bands? (Discussion of banding vs. bonding).
•Orthodontics in the former USSR.

•Pioneers and movers in orthodontic materials (Eulogy of Dr. Hugo Retief).
•Orthodontics in Eastern Europe.
•A do- it- yourself test for bacterial contamination.

•Bracket metal is not the same! (Discussion of the alloys used).

•Bracket brazing (Discussion of the mesh based brackets assembly).

•Reality, or April fooling? (Quiz: Incredible bracket manufacturing errors vs. computer altered images).
•Trends in ceramic brackets.
•The sales tool of tomorrow: computer imaging (smiles, without and with simulated braces).

•You are forcing us to disclose, Mr. Horowitz! (Detailed description of Ortho-Cycle’s “Adhesive dissolution” recycling method).

•Trends in direct bonding appliances II -What limits bracket miniaturization? (Discussion of available alloys and mechanical constraints).

•Trends in direct bonding appliances I.

•Beware of lemons (Discussion of C. G. Matasa’s article on faulty brackets in J. Clinical Orthodontics, March 1990).
•Sapphire brackets in review.

•A pioneer in orthodontics (Eulogy of Dr. George V. Newman).

•Still throwing away money? (Discussion of C. G. Matasa’s article in Am. J. Orthod., July ’89).
•A “Blue book” of today’s metal direct-bonding brackets (Dimensional characteristics and mechanical evaluation of standard size and miniaturized direct bonding brackets).

•Finally, somebody called a spade, a spade (Discussion of Dr. Al Buchwald’s article in Am. J. Orthod., April ’89).
•Etching and direct bonding bases (Description of a method to increase surface area).

•A breakthrough in direct bonding: the film adhesive -Sapphire brackets, revisited (New developments).
•Factory misfits (Faulty, brand new direct bonding brackets detected).

•Is he a dentist, or a chemist? (Eulogy of Rafael L. Bowen).
•Silanation, a key to bonding.

•Electrothermal debracketing (Basic information and comparison between systems).
•Bracket metal is not the same.

•Adhesion and its ten commandments (Do and don’ts in direct bonding).

•Sapphire brackets: progress or problem? (Ceramic brackets characteristics, as a difference from the metallic or plastic ones).
•How to preserve the most delicate part of a bracket, the slot (Adequate debonding methods).

•Why Phoenix? Why without ashes? (Advantages of direct- bonding adhesive dissolution compared with thermal recycling).
•Are reconditioned brackets identifiable? (Criteria for their identification in the absence of any painted dots).